horde
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But stocks did get some love as a horde of investors had pledged to buy stocks yesterday to help prop up the market in a show of patriotism, the Journal reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Another horde, the Reapers, runs around shirtless to show off their thick black tattoos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
A horde of dancers scatter beneath the vaulted belly of Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s recently opened David Geffen Galleries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
What’s more intimidating, an 800-pound gorilla or a horde of small ones?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
If he could manage to free himself he might be able to sneak back and join the horde.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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Parts of Los Angeles are abuzz with hordes of figeater beetles, also known as green fruit beetles or Cotinis mutabilis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Well-heeled travelers are splurging to avoid hordes and hassles inside the terminal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The result sees hordes of onlookers regularly flock to certain parts of the UK coast each year to witness it first-hand during the nighttime hours.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Whether or not hordes of international fans will take over I-95 on foot to get to the stadium is another question entirely.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026
Life grew even harder when the fleeing hordes arrived.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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Like these commodities, data siphoned by tech companies from COVID-19 screening may be the next asset to be horded and exploited.
From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2020
He got it from a fellow inmate, and he horded it under his bed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2015
Outside the walls of Harrenhal, a wolf horded long and loud.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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Their attics were museums where were horded every sort of object against the time when it might be needed.
From Carl and the Cotton Gin by Sara Ware Bassett
Their chief places of resort, and where, during the inclemency of winter, they horded or housed together, were, Kirk Yetholm, Rothbury, Horncliff, Spittal, and Tweedmouth.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various
Another market force at play is consumer behavior, in this case, hording.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Cole has refused medical attention and ignored his personal hygiene, hording food and living in a darkened cell with little to no communication with staff or fellow prisoners, his attorneys told the panel.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
That could lead to some destructive outcomes if competing countries start collecting and hording arable land, Lazard said.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 16, 2022
Can you imagine if every rich person was so focused on making the world a better place, instead of either hording their wealth or squandering it on fancy junk and stoking their egos.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2018
Your aristocracy is a base imitation of our snobby, revelling in the heartless hording of gold, and vaunting of bad English.'
From The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Timothy Templeton
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